i've thought about this. but there's a whole subset of sarcasm which, even in spoken language, is entirely deadpan and doesn't have any indicators of sarcasm. (I think this is the part that Americans have trouble with)
The links don't have any meaning. IINM if certain keywords appear in an article they are automatically turned into links to whoever happened to pay for that keyword. The impression I get is that sites like this write 'articles' to spam Google more effectively.
>What you say could apply to any service related business. This is about the most wrongheaded/duplicitous argument i've seen in a long time.
>Is it OK to say, force a dentist to work on somebody at gunpoint? No. This is clearly a stupid analogy. You are robbing the dentist of his time and effort.
>How about stealing information from a database that somebody took time and money to collect and collate? This is analogous, yes. What exactly is wrong with it? I notice you promote a website monetizing freely provided samples of 'information' other people spent time and money to collect and collate.
Linux on the desktop is at least as good as Windows 95 in all areas, and much better in some. This considering only core OS utilities, not the whole bunch of software you get with most distros.
No-one with a life cares about their PC being zombified - why should they? So people steal a few of your clock cycles, a bit of your bandwidth. So what? Most people with modern computers on broadband have plenty of both to spare. Hackers are not going to take away all your performance otherwise you might take the computer to be 'repaired' or reinstall windows xp. Neither are they going to delete all your files - for the same reason of not being detected, also why would they care about your stupid 'my documents'. People running zombie networks have better fish to fry. The whole 'threat' is simply propaganda by the actual victims of spamming and DDoS attacks - people whose time would be better spent securing their own systems properly. If you're connected to a public network, you should assume everyone else there is a potential malicious attacker - and then see if you can protect yourself. Zombienets just make this hypothetical stance a reality. It's not up to everyone else to help you protect yourself by employing paranoid and unnecessary levels of security.
The price of making a CD with Windows XP, or any other piece of software on it, including packaging etc., can't be more than a dollar. Not the cost of materials, the cost of manufacturing & distribution.
I don't believe anyone ever complained about the price of CPU's based on the fact that the raw materials (sand, mainly?) are cheap, but you clearly learnt to debate at the school of 'set up spurious straw men representing an entirely fictional opposing viewpoint and then knock them down'.
Anonymous Coward is right. There are countably infinitely many possible books, and countably infinitely many of them are about group theory.
Your reference gets a finite number only by (arbitrarily) restricting the maximum length of a book to 100,000 characters. There exists in fact no such restriction on the length of books. If you allow books of arbitrary, but finite length, there are infinitely many of them.
they don't sell counterfeit pepsi, dude.
they sell grey-market-import indian/mexican/whatever pepsi.
that is, if as i assume you live in the western world.
or perhaps you can produce documented evidence of people making fake pepsi (or coke) in which case i stand corrected.
This is not true. Until about a decade ago most EU countries gave you nationality/citizenship if you were born in that country, regardless of parents nationality etc. Definitely the UK was like that until quite recently. France certainly doesn't have that rule at least since early nineties - in practice most children of immigrants got french citizenship, but the right wasn't automatic. Now citizenship cannot be acquired automatically through birth in any EU country. Ireland was the last to get rid of the right one or two years ago. Apparently since they were the only country in the EU to still have it, and since it's now pretty easy to travel anywhere in the EU if you have residence rights in one EU country, they were finding that lots of pregnant mothers were coming to Ireland specifically give birth and obtain EU-country citizenship for their child. This definitely applies to the 15 'old EU' members, but i would imagine that the new member states have come in line with this since joining.
This is Microsoft's typical MO. wait to see which way the bandwagon is going, then jump on it and try to take out the opposition completely with monopolistic practices. They don't lead, they follow.
GUI's? The internet? Microsoft was clueless until their dominance was threatened.
One day they'll try and play catch up and fail completely to push out whoever they're pushing around this time. Then the writing will be on the wall for Microsoft.
Whether it'll be google, AJAX and 'web 2.0' that does it now, or some future bandwagon; too soon to tell.
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i've thought about this. but there's a whole subset of sarcasm which, even in spoken language, is entirely deadpan and doesn't have any indicators of sarcasm.
(I think this is the part that Americans have trouble with)
http://www.bricklink.com/feedback.asp?u=swanberg
It might embarrass the editors.
Slashdot user THG doesn't appear to have posted on slashdot before.
But he has submitted a few articles starting "Cooltechzone.com has..."
The links don't have any meaning. IINM if certain keywords appear in an article they are automatically turned into links to whoever happened to pay for that keyword.
The impression I get is that sites like this write 'articles' to spam Google more effectively.
>What you say could apply to any service related business.
This is about the most wrongheaded/duplicitous argument i've seen in a long time.
>Is it OK to say, force a dentist to work on somebody at gunpoint?
No. This is clearly a stupid analogy. You are robbing the dentist of his time and effort.
>How about stealing information from a database that somebody took time and money to collect and collate?
This is analogous, yes. What exactly is wrong with it?
I notice you promote a website monetizing freely provided samples of 'information' other people spent time and money to collect and collate.
Linux on the desktop is at least as good as Windows 95 in all areas, and much better in some.
This considering only core OS utilities, not the whole bunch of software you get with most distros.
Patent that now!
Shouldn't that be the other way around?
No-one with a life cares about their PC being zombified - why should they?
So people steal a few of your clock cycles, a bit of your bandwidth. So what?
Most people with modern computers on broadband have plenty of both to spare.
Hackers are not going to take away all your performance otherwise you might take the computer to be 'repaired' or reinstall windows xp. Neither are they going to delete all your files - for the same reason of not being detected, also why would they care about your stupid 'my documents'. People running zombie networks have better fish to fry.
The whole 'threat' is simply propaganda by the actual victims of spamming and DDoS attacks - people whose time would be better spent securing their own systems properly. If you're connected to a public network, you should assume everyone else there is a potential malicious attacker - and then see if you can protect yourself. Zombienets just make this hypothetical stance a reality.
It's not up to everyone else to help you protect yourself by employing paranoid and unnecessary levels of security.
Oh, shut up.
>The current situation is perfect.
/never/ perfect, dude.
The current situation is
If you think it is then you are excluded from the debate.
Uh, the link you posted sends me to /my/ journal.
Shurely something wrong?
Are you comparing a 64-bit chip with a 32-bit chip?
>it's only because the R&D can be divided across those huge forced sales that you can arrive at that figure
this isn't what I was arguing, is it?
>the cost of plant, material and labour
But this isn't what you said is it?
He didn't actually say this. It's what's known as a hypothetical example. The words 'For example' are a clue.
Idiot.
The price of making a CD with Windows XP, or any other piece of software on it, including packaging etc., can't be more than a dollar. Not the cost of materials, the cost of manufacturing & distribution.
I don't believe anyone ever complained about the price of CPU's based on the fact that the raw materials (sand, mainly?) are cheap, but you clearly learnt to debate at the school of 'set up spurious straw men representing an entirely fictional opposing viewpoint and then knock them down'.
Then Richard Stallman can run the world, of course.
>Good or bad, consumers LIKE what Microsoft offers
For a given definition of the word 'like', yes.
Anonymous Coward is right. There are countably infinitely many possible books, and countably infinitely many of them are about group theory.
Your reference gets a finite number only by (arbitrarily) restricting the maximum length of a book to 100,000 characters. There exists in fact no such restriction on the length of books. If you allow books of arbitrary, but finite length, there are infinitely many of them.
Go to the back of the class.
they sell grey-market-import indian/mexican/whatever pepsi.
that is, if as i assume you live in the western world.
or perhaps you can produce documented evidence of people making fake pepsi (or coke) in which case i stand corrected.
but not every set is an element of itself
many sets include themselves:
they obviously have to be infinite though.
the set of all sets is a set.
the set of all things which are not teaspoons is also not a teaspoon.
This is not true.
Until about a decade ago most EU countries gave you nationality/citizenship if you were born in that country, regardless of parents nationality etc. Definitely the UK was like that until quite recently. France certainly doesn't have that rule at least since early nineties - in practice most children of immigrants got french citizenship, but the right wasn't automatic.
Now citizenship cannot be acquired automatically through birth in any EU country. Ireland was the last to get rid of the right one or two years ago. Apparently since they were the only country in the EU to still have it, and since it's now pretty easy to travel anywhere in the EU if you have residence rights in one EU country, they were finding that lots of pregnant mothers were coming to Ireland specifically give birth and obtain EU-country citizenship for their child.
This definitely applies to the 15 'old EU' members, but i would imagine that the new member states have come in line with this since joining.
This is Microsoft's typical MO. wait to see which way the bandwagon is going, then jump on it and try to take out the opposition completely with monopolistic practices. They don't lead, they follow.
GUI's? The internet? Microsoft was clueless until their dominance was threatened.
One day they'll try and play catch up and fail completely to push out whoever they're pushing around this time. Then the writing will be on the wall for Microsoft.
Whether it'll be google, AJAX and 'web 2.0' that does it now, or some future bandwagon; too soon to tell.